Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.
LIVYTemerity is not always successful.
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An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.
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Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
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No man likes to be surpassed by those of his own level.
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That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.
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Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
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No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.
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The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
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Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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